1996 Mirage Software / S-Crew
Platform: Commodore Amiga 500
Sadly with the decline of the Amiga in later years, it resulted in many titles being thrown onto the scrapheap. Joy of Killing was yet another casualty from all of this, a shoot-em-up title by Polish development team S-Crew, and set to be published by Mirage Software.
The game was developed by Jarosław Wetoszka (Charon/Mystic) with graphics by Paweł Wojciechowski (Yoga/United Artists) and audio by Szymon Kosecki (Spiryt/Euphoria) and was relatively advanced and mentioned in a number of magazines back in 1996, where software was beginning to dry up.
It isn’t known why the game was cancelled, but we suspect it was due to the dwindling support for the platform. Thankfully a demo was created, and thanks to contributor Rygar, the game was recovered just before Christmas, and here it is for you to download and check out for yourself.
It is a simple scrolling shooter, with some nice background graphics, and has left to right movement like Flying Shark. It certainly has promise, and its a shame that it didn’t get any further.
Hopefully more of the game can be found some day, but in the meantime – check out the preview, and if you know anything more about the title, please do get in touch.
With thanks to Rygar for the contribution and recovery of the demo.
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